Another mass grave found in Mosul as Iraqi force advance to retake city from Isis

Iraqi forces, who continue their advance in western Mosul, said that they had found a mass grave containing the remains of about 500 people at Badoush prison on Saturday (11 March).

The Hashd al-Shaabi forces, an umbrella pro-Iraq group comprising Iran-backed Shia militias said that the remains found were of "civilian prisoners" who were "executed by (Isis) gangs after they controlled the prison during their occupation of Mosul".

Paramilitary forces have discovered dozens of mass graves containing hundreds of bodies as they battle Isis militants to retake the city from their control. The extremists had allegedly murdered up to 600 prison inmates, mostly Shia Muslims, when they captured Mosul in 2014.

However, an army source deployed with the Hashd forces could not confirm the discovery, the BBC reported.